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    Duration: 03:28:00
    Sustainable Insect and Pest Management Practices | Integrated Pest Management System
    Biological control employs strategies such as introducing natural predators, parasites, or pathogens to regulate pest populations. It also involves fostering the presence of beneficial insects and organisms that prey on pests. Crop Rotation and Polyculture strategies include alternating the cultivation of different crops in the same field to disrupt pest life cycles and planting diverse […]
    Duration: 11:32:00
    Silk cocoon harvesting and processing in the factory
    When farming silk worms, you need to keep the environment so clean. Nutritious food is dropped on silkworm eggs waiting to hatch and after hatching and molting, they eat a lot and grow up very fast. While feeding the silk worms, you need to evenly distribute the food to the silk worms. Farming silkworms When […]
    Duration: 14:12:00
    Silk Worm farming and harvesting process – How is silk made in China? silk production process steps
    Silk production As the silk fibre is taken by the farmer before the cycle is completed by the caterpillar, it is soaked to become loose and silk is taken by weaving machine and take 2.5 hours to make a metre of silk material.
    Duration: 02:15:00
    Best Early Honey Bee Food, the Dandelion, Macro High Definition
    Dandelions Dandelions serve as an important early nutrition source for honey bees, and by allowing them to thrive in your lawns, you provide an easily accessible food source. During a single forage flight, honey bees tend to focus on a single species of flower or plant, rather than jumping from one species to another. In […]
    Duration: 11:29:00
    Summertime honey extraction, Traditional Japanese beekeeping, Apis cerana japonica.
    Today we feature a honey extraction from a very strong colony of native Japanese honeybees. We will remove some boxes from this traditional Japanese beehive, also known as a pile box hive, for honey extraction. Mostly during summertime, there is no honey to extract since the bees consume the honey stored during the winter season. Newly captured colonies from the spring also do […]
    Duration: 09:14:00
    Why did the bees abscond? Dismantling an open air hive of native Japanese honey bees
    An open-air colony that had been set up was absconded. An open-air colony is a colony out in the open. Since the colony was absconded, it had to be dismantled. The comb is attached to a thin board that is attached to the ceiling of the shed, so we will start by removing the board. […]
    Duration: 13:41:00
    Harvesting the most beautiful honeycomb from traditional Japanese beehive.
    Japan has two types of honeybees, the imported Western bee, and the native Japanese honey bee. A pile box hive is structured so that Japanese honey bees can build their combs downward, just as they would in the wild.  The comb is initially used to keep larvae, but as the colony extends downwards, the queen […]
    Duration: 07:51:00
    Processing Honeycomb, with Adrian Iodice from Beekeeping Naturally
    The traditional honey processing method involves several steps to ensure a safe and efficient harvest. Once the honey has been harvested, the first task is to separate it from the honeycombs while maintaining the right balance of ripe and unripe honey. To begin the process, gather the necessary tools: a kitchen sieve, a fork, and […]
    Duration: 07:46:00
    Chasing swarm of Japanese honeybees
    Japan’s beekeeping industry consists of two types of bees, the imported Western honey bee and the native Japanese honey bee. Western bees were introduced to Japan in the late 1800s and overtook the beekeeping industry due to their higher honey yield.  However, traditional beekeeping is still practiced in Japan to this day with our native Japanese […]
    Duration: 14:12:00
    Traditional Japanese honey harvest. Apis cerana japonica
    Traditional beekeeping involves keeping native Japanese honey bees typically in a frameless pile box hive. First, we need some tools to use for the box removal like a large plastic container, a blower, a wire, hive tool and a screwdriver for the box removal.  A pile box hive is frameless so a wire is used to cut the comb between […]
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